Chiayi-Tainan Luka

The Chiayi-Tainan Luka (嘉南勇士; literally "Chianan Braves") or abbreviated Chianan Luka was a professional baseball team in the Taiwan Major League (TML) that existed from 1997 to 2002. Its homes were Chiayi County Baseball Stadium(not the Chiayi Baseball Field used by its CPBL then counterpart Chinatrust Whales) and Tainan Baseball Field. Except for winning championship in TML's first season in 1997, this team did not perform too well throughout its history and it only ever attracted corporate sponsors in 2000 and 2001. As a result, this team used its home cities' names as its name for most of its lifespan, rather than a company's name. After TML merged with the Chinese Professional Baseball League (CPBL) in 2003, this team merged with Taichung Agan and exchanged its name with Taipei Gida (later became Macoto Gida), which was further changed to Macoto Cobras since 2004.

Regular Season Records

Year	Win	Loss	Tie	Rank	Win-Loss%
1997	53	42	1	1	.558
1998	57	48	3	2	.543
1999	40	42	2	3	.488
2000	37	45	2	3	.451
2001	13	47	0	4	.217
2002	29	41	2	4	.414
Total	229	265	10		.464

• TML Championships: once, 1997

Notable former players

• Gavin Fingleson, Olympic baseball silver medal winner
• Chen Yi-hsin
• Silvestre Campusano
• Luis Iglesias
• Carlos Mirabal
• Hisanobu Watanabe

See also

• Chinese Professional Baseball League
• Macoto Cobras

References

• Chiayi-Tainan Luka in Taiwan Baseball Wiki (in Traditional Chinese)